In common musical forms of the Classical period, such as sonata form, modulations to the dominant, subdominant and relative minor keys are all fairly common in the development section, ie the ...

You’ve heard it all before. Classical music is dead. It’s one of our culture’s most enduring variations on a theme: that classical music is dying, or aging, or rusty or, at the very least ...

Though all music can be documented and experienced in multiple ways—scores, recordings, live performances—one approach to distinguishing musical traditions is to ask which form a given ...

The origins of classical music are rooted in Western Europe, with pieces originally being written for churches and royal courts. Given the genre’s long history, four periods have come to define ...

The Schenectady Symphony Orchestra’s concert on Sunday will be not just entertainment but a bit of a musical history lesson. “This season we’ve been taking a time machine into different time ...

Music Best of classical music in 2022. In a powerful comeback year, highlights include a George Floyd requiem, Michael Tilson Thomas at the Kennedy Center and a stunning David Geffen Hall.

In 2023, it’s hard to love classical music. Not because of the music itself — it’s just difficult to find it. Searching for George Gershwin is as likely to bring up his own performances as ...

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